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We are terrified of designer babies – but not for the reason you think
Almost half a century on from the first ‘test tube’ birth, IVF has been used by millions – yet some fear it heralds a nightmare future
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Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, review: A devastating emotional rollercoaster
The Man of Steel’s life-changing accident – and the relationships that saved him – are the focus of this gut-punch of a documentary
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The trans thriller dazzling Oscar voters – and enraging the trans mob
Netflix’s genre-bending musical Emilia Pérez is tipped for a Best Picture nomination and may make history. So why is it being called ‘evil’?
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The 50 best horror films of all time – ranked
From black-and-white blood-curdlers to sinister social satire… Our critic picks 50 films guaranteed to scare you senseless
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Cillian Murphy: ‘In Ireland, slagging someone off is the deepest form of affection’
Rather than bask in the glow of his Oscar win, the Oppenheimer star went straight back to work – uncovering unsettling secrets close to home
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How Marvel’s Blade reboot became a bloody mess
It’s taken five years, several directors and untold rewrites to revive Wesley Snipes’s sword-slinging vampire – yet he remains dead. Why?
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Why Hollywood liberals are punishing Clint Eastwood for his politics
Despite his formidable track record and stature, the star’s latest film is being shabbily treated by executives. Is it something he said?
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‘In every single dream, Dad was walking’: Christopher Reeve’s family on the real Superman
The Superman star’s accident cut short his career – and changed his relationship with his children. Now, they are telling their story
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Flow: this quietly transportive animation is a skin-prickling wonder
With a gentle sense of post-apocalyptic mystery, this low-budget joy sets a raft of animals adrift in a flooded, Ghibli-esque world
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Piece by Piece: this Lego Pharrell Williams biopic is a brick-busting delight
Despite its family-friendly packaging, this buoyant account of the Happy singer’s life is actually a razor-sharp comment on celebrity
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Godzilla is the perfect metaphor for our nuclear recklessness
Cinema’s hardest-working, radioactive reptile stomps into a new age of atomic terror
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How to get the body of a Roman gladiator
What did it actually take to be fighting fit for the Colosseum? Veganism, thongs – and a layer of flab
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From Dirty Dancing to the nose job from hell: Whatever happened to Jennifer Grey?
A disastrous operation killed the 1980s star’s career overnight. She’s now back in an Oscar-tipped film – but where has she been?
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I watched the goriest film ever shown in cinemas – so you don’t have to
The hack-and-slash box office sensation is reportedly so bloody it made people sick. Surely it couldn’t be that bad...
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The biopic meant to derail Donald Trump’s campaign has backfired spectacularly
The US presidential candidate tried to stop The Apprentice being released. But its pitiful box office proves he needn’t have worried
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Our age of nauseating sensitivity has killed satire
The cult of priggishness has neutered the tradition of gently-mocking British humour. The Boulting brothers’ films show what we’re missing
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How Hollywood beat Hong Kong’s stuntmen to a pulp
An action-packed new film celebrates the bone-breaking, bicep-tearing heroes of cinema. Why are they a dying breed?
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is more than gore – it’s an ode to the nuclear family
Yes, it’s about murderous cannibals – but this 50-year-old shoestring slasher is also a masterful critique of post-industrial capitalism
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John Cusack’s strange journey from 1980s heartthrob to Left-wing troll
The charismatic, charming star of Say Anything and The Sure Thing is now a charmless professional provocateur. What happened?
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The Piano Lesson: Samuel L Jackson is quietly magnificent in this fitful August Wilson drama
This film can’t quite pay off as horror, but it borrows the trappings of an exorcism flick to force a family crisis to a head
